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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,250NAfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant

Online NA 104.143.2.17:28615 checked 9m ago

5x monthly wipes moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
6/ 100
= 1 player
6% full
7-day average
6
peak 26
Rank
#1,250
top 6% · #182 in NA
Last wipe
5d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 6% of all ranked servers, top 10% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

21 days
usual gap
between real wipes
22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 16

Coming wipes

9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
37d 0h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 1 Oct
010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 26, 10 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 17:58 UTC5d ago 26 – running 5
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW26d ago 19 halved by day 16 21 days 1

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant rank against other Rust servers?

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant ranks #1,250 on seven-day player hours, #182 in North America, and sits in the top 6% of all ranked servers.

How busy is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

The count reads 6 players on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant, which has 100 slots. We counted an average of 6 players in the past week, with 26 at the busiest. Look at the last 48 hours and 02:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 14 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): You can join up to 100 slots; ts15 (Group limit): The team limit is 15; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 5x Rust server population, Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted and North American Rust servers. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 22 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 10 hours in. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 16 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

The force wipe is the only wipe GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant takes, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. 5 days ago the current world was made. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 629472, generated by the game, is in use on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant advertises a 5x gather rate in its title. Up to 15 players can team together. This server runs pve, no player combat. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant run?

On Linux, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 21. Up to 214,049 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 7,097 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant online, and how reliable is it?

GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 9 hours ago. It was up 98% of the time over the last 7 full days, 164 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant located?

With its NA tag, GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant places itself in North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 104.143.2.17:28615.

Getting in

How do I join GOM 5x PVE / With PURGE Grumpy Old Man |Kits|Skins|BackPack|Ant?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 104.143.2.17:28615; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/grumpyoldman.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts15,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players You can join up to 100 slots.
ts15
Group limit The team limit is 15.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.